The Week in Polls: Obama Rules the World

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The Best Years of Our Lives

Are you a glass half full or half empty kind of gal or guy? The answer — and your political affiliation — may color how one looks to the future. In a Gallup poll released Jan. 2, 50 percent of Americans said that the country's best years are behind us. But 69 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans said they have yet to come.